topic Re: ALE Usage in Application Development and Automation Discussions

ALE Usage

Former Member — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:06:54 GMT

How ALE will be useful in delivering data to the receier? cant we do that using EDI ? thanks in advance

Re: ALE Usage

Former Member — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:50:11 GMT

Hi Lakshman,

Whenever reciever system can process IDoc, we can use ALE. Receiver system can be non-SAP system like PROVIA.

Sunil Shingte

Re: ALE Usage

gajendra_bhakuni — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:14:47 GMT

Hi Lakshman,

I the basic difference between ALE and EDI will make things clear:

If we send data to an external partner, we generally speak of EDI, while ALE is a mechanism to reliable replicate data between trusting systems to store a redundant copy of the IDoc data. The difference is made clear, when we think of a purchase order that is sent as an IDoc. If we send the purchase order to a supplier then the supplier will store the purchase order as a sales order. However, if we send the purchase order via ALE to another R/3 system, then the receiving system will store the purchase order also as a purchase order.

Regards,

Gajendra.